PACO@PacoOnPause

I used to stream full time but now I'm full time sick.

Joined March 2020
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I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes and I'm going to use this tweet as a springboard.
Dok@Dok845
23 Aug 2025
I see a ton about long covid from legitimate, scientific sources that if it was even remotely true would have apocalyptic implications, everyone’s heart, lungs, and brain failing at once, and I can’t square it with the world I actually observe every day.
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This is from the CDC and I'd guess that it's based off of this review that looked at infectious viral load and symptom onset.
People with COVID-19 can be infectious from 1–2 days before and up to 8–10 days after symptoms begin. The majority of transmission appears to occur during the early periods of infection, particularly in the 1–2 days before symptoms start and within the first few days of symptom onset.

ALT People with COVID-19 can be infectious from 1–2 days before and up to 8–10 days after symptoms begin. The majority of transmission appears to occur during the early periods of infection, particularly in the 1–2 days before symptoms start and within the first few days of symptom onset.

A graph tracking symptom onset, infectious viral load and time since infection which is measured by days. The highest infectious viral load happens in the days before and after symptom onset and there is uncertainty about when an individual becomes non-infectious.

ALT A graph tracking symptom onset, infectious viral load and time since infection which is measured by days. The highest infectious viral load happens in the days before and after symptom onset and there is uncertainty about when an individual becomes non-infectious.

aster 🌼@themermacorn
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I feel like this isn’t true. I’m happy to be proven wrong with peer-reviewed studies* & not just vague “estimates” but in my personal experience & also hearing from other cc folks experience over the years, people are most contagious AFTER symptoms start.
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Sources: nature.com/articles/s41579-0… cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/trav…

SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics

Nature Reviews Microbiology - A better understanding of the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is essential to inform public health measures. In this Review, Puhach, Meyer and Eckerle explore insights into...

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many of you have gotten addicted to loudly and proudly advertising the uselessness of your ‘organizing.’ you should be ashamed and remove yourself from twitter and anything resembling leadership to go sit in your room and think about what you’ve done
Sam Sacks@SamSacks
Sep 24
Replying to @SamSacks
Also, disability activists aren’t unreasonable. But unreasonable people have existed forever, in all forms, all tendencies. They’ve been overcome or integrated. If you let a so-called “wokescold” derail your campaign or push you out of organizing, I think that’s a skill issue.
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Alright, the fun's over. Ted Cruz and all of the worst conservatives are making fun of the lesbian bar now.
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RT @zoeloveshouses: having to live a ~covid conscious~ life in 2026 (while also having long covid) is the worst thing i have ever experienc…
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Going to keep trying!
Graphic: Burgundy lettering on mottled old paper background cut through with the image of a graphic bright yellow lightening bolt. A picture of a bald, light skinned Black person wearing oversized frames is in the bottom left corner. Text: Looking for a covid safe roommate, still masking regularly. Prefer west end. Parkdale/High Park. Open to other locations. Happy to form a search party or move into an existing space. No Rush. Can wait to find the right space. Very left. Open communicator. DM if interested in chatting.

ALT Graphic: Burgundy lettering on mottled old paper background cut through with the image of a graphic bright yellow lightening bolt. A picture of a bald, light skinned Black person wearing oversized frames is in the bottom left corner. Text: Looking for a covid safe roommate, still masking regularly. Prefer west end. Parkdale/High Park. Open to other locations. Happy to form a search party or move into an existing space. No Rush. Can wait to find the right space. Very left. Open communicator. DM if interested in chatting.

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I wish more people were living by this principle.
inefficient rhubarb snackowski@snackowska
Sep 7
better cringe than fash
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A few hundred comments get turned into a story and amplified to millions of people, but millions of people have had their health affected by COVID and no one wants to talk about that. One of these things is worth writing about and it's not the story in the Boston Globe.
An image created by the CDC that was uploaded July 20th, 2026: Millions of U.S. adults and children have been affected by Long COVID. With a link: cdc.gov/long-covid

ALT An image created by the CDC that was uploaded July 20th, 2026: Millions of U.S. adults and children have been affected by Long COVID. With a link: cdc.gov/long-covid

Boston Globe Pitchbot
@BostonSatire
Sep 22
I can’t top this
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Bean@HELIOARIA
Sep 20
Palestinian Adults deserve to live too
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Mystery fatigue. Mystery brain fog. Mystery POTS. Mystery economic inactivity. Mystery school chronic absenteeism. Mystery heart problems. Mystery smell impairments. Mystery healthcare pressure. But whenever COVID gets mentioned, everyone is mysteriously healthier than ever!
NBC News
@NBCNews
Sep 19
About 71.5% of adults in the U.S. say they experienced fatigue on multiple days over the past three months, according to a new report from the CDC. nbcnews.com/health/mental-he…
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Someone replied that it's not because of covid, it's because jobs are hard. They deleted their post after I responded with this study, so I'm quoting it here because I think more people should be aware of this information.
PACO@PacoOnPause
Sep 20
Replying to @1worms
I think creating a new year round baseline of illness that used to be confined to influenza season, makes people's jobs harder.
Original Investigation | Public Health Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market Julia M. Dennett, PhD1,2; Evan J. Soltas, PhD3,4; Gopi Shah Goda, PhD5; et al Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Netw Open Published Online: October 10, 2025 2025;8;(10):e2536635. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.36635

ALT Original Investigation | Public Health Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market Julia M. Dennett, PhD1,2; Evan J. Soltas, PhD3,4; Gopi Shah Goda, PhD5; et al Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Netw Open Published Online: October 10, 2025 2025;8;(10):e2536635. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.36635

Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort study of employed workers in the US, the new year-round baseline for work ab-sences appeared to be on par with the levels formerly confined to prepandemic influenza season conditions. Policymakers should consider the consequences for workers, including the value of policies and actions that mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. This study additionally highlights the potential for using nationally representative labor market data to monitor the impacts of public health crises.

ALT Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort study of employed workers in the US, the new year-round baseline for work ab-sences appeared to be on par with the levels formerly confined to prepandemic influenza season conditions. Policymakers should consider the consequences for workers, including the value of policies and actions that mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. This study additionally highlights the potential for using nationally representative labor market data to monitor the impacts of public health crises.
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Most people won't admit or even consider that they have Long COVID. Instead they just have mystery health problems that are only mysterious if we ignore thousands of studies and pretend that COVID isn't a vascular disease that everyone keeps getting reinfected with.
Google trends showing interest over time for Long COVID and it shows a spike in 2020, peaking December 2021 to 100 and then after that dropping way down to a negligible amount of interest, despite the fact that millions of people have been getting it.

ALT Google trends showing interest over time for Long COVID and it shows a spike in 2020, peaking December 2021 to 100 and then after that dropping way down to a negligible amount of interest, despite the fact that millions of people have been getting it.

Long COVID has not disappeared. People continue to develop the condition after new COVID infections. World Health Organization European Region

ALT Long COVID has not disappeared. People continue to develop the condition after new COVID infections. World Health Organization European Region

Suzaku has Long Covid/MECFS🥴🍉@Suzaku_is_tired
Sep 18
Friend 1: "Had a stroke a few months ago, applying for disability" Friend 2: "Got diagnosed with a rare neuroimmune disorder" Friend 3: "Seeing drs all the time. GP says it's perimenopause" Friend 4: "Dr said my articulations pain is all in my head" They are all 30-40 years old.
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Excess deaths from disease in preschool-aged (0-4 yrs) children continue at rates 10% or higher than before the 2020 pandemic SARS-Cov-2 ("COVID") has become, like polio before it, holoendemic
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I think there is a really big information gap about how much this can hurt. I couldn't have conceptualized it before experiencing it and I rarely attempt to describe it because I don't think anything I could say, would do it justice.
Bean Bestie@MaskedHottiee
Sep 15
I'm not just wearing a mask bc it's the right thing to do. Long covid hurts. Badly. This has been an agonizing experience. Extremely so. I never knew I could experience so much pain and live. For years on end. It's so uncomfortable. In every way. The body horror is endless
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13 new PJ.2.1 sequence were just uploaded from the US, 10 from California and three from Colorado, so that makes a total of 21 new PJ.2.1 sequences on the day.
Stefan Pöhlmann
@snpoehlm
Sep 14
More PJ.2.1 - based on sequence retrieval from GISAID and sequence analysis in Nextclade, a total of 8 new sequences were deposited today, 6 from the US 🇺🇸, 2 from Spain 🇪🇸. It is noteworthy that the initial PJ.2.1 sequences were almost exclusively obtained from patients in the above 65 years age group. Some of the recent sequences were collected from younger individuals. Need to monitor this development. #PJ21
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There is a lot of societal pressure to treat this specific problem like it's a mystery.
Raghu Venugopal MD
@raghu_venugopal
Sep 12
I'm grateful to commentators who mentioned the surge in Toronto ER visits could be related to COVID. I've seen an uptick in cases. But it's not that simple. I see the types of problems presenting. It's definitely not just COVID. Here are some possibilities: 👇👇👇 1) COVID - yes, sure. There's a small uptick in cases. I've been testing nonstop for 6 years and will continue to do so. 2) Catch up of summer problems. It could be some medical problems festering in the summer are finally coming to light. I'm seeing that. That abdominal pain that is cancer. That cough that is cancer. This is part of it. But at the same time, there was zero summer slow-down in ER. It's just more, more, more. 3) Referrals to ER. Family physicians and specialists are catching up on patient's medical problems and some are justifiably urgent or emergent, and appropriately, they are sent to ER. A minority are inappropriate referrals because we are only show open and cannot decline. 4) Lack of family medicine. A lot of patients don't have a family doctor. Some I treat do have a family doctor but can't get an urgent appointment. But it's time to call a spade a spade. We are not set up to handle the sheer volume of cases coming.
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I'm aware that the government is intentionally sabotaging healthcare to usher in privatization but this hospital pressure is happening because of disastrous infinite covid policies. Look at the patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted in the UK and note when it started.
Waiting over 12 hours after decision to admit Patients waiting on a trolley over 12 hours from decision to admit to admission. 44,951 in August 2026 47,438 in July 2026 371 in August 2019 and it shows a graph massively spiking from 2022 onwards.

ALT Waiting over 12 hours after decision to admit Patients waiting on a trolley over 12 hours from decision to admit to admission. 44,951 in August 2026 47,438 in July 2026 371 in August 2019 and it shows a graph massively spiking from 2022 onwards.

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I preferred the 2022 version of you.
Long-COVID: we have much to learn, but we have to start by believing those suffering. Medicine itself has a history of hubris and ignorance. Like society, we don't believe what we don't fully understand. Even HIV was once thought to be fake by some MDs and prominent leaders. September 10th, 2022

ALT Long-COVID: we have much to learn, but we have to start by believing those suffering. Medicine itself has a history of hubris and ignorance. Like society, we don't believe what we don't fully understand. Even HIV was once thought to be fake by some MDs and prominent leaders. September 10th, 2022

You know you're on X when the vast majority who don't see patients are screaming everything is COVID and the other half are screaming nothing is COVID. and a picture of a doctor from The Pitt. September 12th, 2026

ALT You know you're on X when the vast majority who don't see patients are screaming everything is COVID and the other half are screaming nothing is COVID. and a picture of a doctor from The Pitt. September 12th, 2026

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I'm going to try to make a video. I just wrote something out about feigned ignorance and if I have the juice to finish it, I'll post it in the next 2 hours. If not, probably tomorrow.
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Tomorrow it is. Hopefully. 😅
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